TNW
What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe
In January 2026, London’s mayor gave a blunt warning that has reverberated far beyond City Hall: art...
Belgian cybersecurity startup becomes unicorn
Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido Security has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at a $...
Introducing TNW Council
A private network for founders and executives, limited to 1,000 members The Next Web today announces...
When shopping stops being a place
For years, online shopping followed a fixed path. Search bar, product grid, filters, checkout. The i...
AI Skills
For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been discussed almost exclusively in terms of mo...
AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, T...
Are Tech giants killing cold outreach?
This is one of the most concerning questions for sales teams at the beginning of 2026: are tech gian...
ChatGPT Health has arrived
I’ve said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the...
Who decides the best AI?
The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and eve...
Big stages, smaller impact.
For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, m...
Five stars, Zero trust
Five stars used to mean something. People still read reviews before buying software. They just don’t...
A 2025 recap for Tech & AI
2025 was the year technology stopped being tomorrow’s promise and became today’s anchor. What began ...
A New Era for TNW.
My name is Alexandru Stan, and this article continues the dialogue I began following the acquisition...
Engineering’s AI reality check
Most engineering leaders cannot answer the one question their CFO is about to ask: “Can you prove th...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Not long ago, like many of you, I read what I feared might be The Next Web’s final article. In late ...
Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Probl...
When OpenAI announced its new shopping search capabilities, I took the news with a grain of salt (pe...
Tekpon acquires TNW (The Next Web) brand from The ...
Tekpon has acquired 100% of the TNW media and events brands, which cover and convene the European te...
Ending graciously
A few decades ago, when I was raising funding for a startup, I made a lasting impression on an inves...
